mavric91

You realize Washington lived 2 centuries ago right? No doubt he was a great leader, but his time was so different from our own. Should we really be taking his advice?

But as long as we are taking founders advice; Jefferson said that each generation should re write the constitution to better fit the values and problems in their time (I’m paraphrasing). Would you take his advice?

https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/thomas-jefferson-james-madison

He outlines it in a letter to James Madison.

You’re right. We do have a system in place to amend the constitution. But even that system is borderline archaic. Can you actually see a new amendment being passed in today’s political climate?

Edit: amendment not amazement.

I used the word generation. He doesn’t necessarily it MUST be rewritten. Though he does in a letter posit the idea that laws might expire every 19 years (I’m not sure why he chose that number). As I said I was paraphrasing his views (mostly for arguments sake) but I was mostly think of this quote of his, which is inscribed on the wall of the Jefferson memorial:

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."